Sometimes it's possible that the debug info gets disabled due to alignment issues. If we then get a corruption we have very few clues wtf happened. --- linux-2.6.11/mm/slab.c~ 2005-04-20 03:07:42.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.11/mm/slab.c 2005-04-20 03:07:48.000000000 -0400 @@ -1064,6 +1064,7 @@ static void check_poison_obj(kmem_cache_ printk(KERN_ERR "Slab corruption: (%s) start=%p, len=%d\n", print_tainted(), realobj, size); print_objinfo(cachep, objp, 0); + dump_stack(); } /* Hexdump the affected line */ i = (i/16)*16;